Ezekiel 3:2

Bible in Basic English

And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.

Hebrew Names Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

King James Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

English Standard Version
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat.

New American Standard Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.

New Century Version
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

Amplified Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.

World English Bible
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So I opened my mouth, and he gaue mee this roule to eate.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.

Legacy Standard Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.

Berean Standard Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.

Contemporary English Version
He handed me the scroll and said, "Eat this and fill up on it." So I ate the scroll, and it tasted sweet as honey.

Complete Jewish Bible
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat,

Darby Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

Easy-to-Read Version
So I opened my mouth and he put the scroll into my mouth.

George Lamsa Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that scroll.

Good News Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

Lexham English Bible
And I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat,

Literal Translation
So I opened my mouth, and He made me eat that roll.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So I opened my mouth, and he gaue me the boke for to eate,

American Standard Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that roll.

King James Version (1611)
So I opened my mouth, and hee caused me to eate that roule.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So I opened my mouth, and he fed me with this roule.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So he opened my mouth, and caused me to eat the volume.

English Revised Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y openyde my mouth, and he fedde me with that volym.

Update Bible Version
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.

Webster's Bible Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

New English Translation
So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.

New King James Version
So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that scroll.

New Living Translation
So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.

New Life Bible
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this book.

New Revised Standard
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So I opened my mouth, - and he caused me to eat this roll.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that book:

Revised Standard Version
So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

Young's Literal Translation
And I open my mouth, and He causeth me to eat this roll.

THE MESSAGE
As I opened my mouth, he gave me the scroll to eat, saying, "Son of man, eat this book that I am giving you. Make a full meal of it!" So I ate it. It tasted so good—just like honey.

Contextual Overview

¹ And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel. ² And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food. ³ And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth. ⁴ And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them. ⁵ For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel; ⁶ Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you. ⁷ But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart. ⁸ See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows. ⁹ Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people. ¹⁰ Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 25:17, Acts 26:19

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 11:4 - General

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I opened my mouth,.... To take in the roll, and eat it; he was not disobedient to the heavenly vision; he did all that he could towards eating it, but was not sufficient of himself; and therefore it follows:

and he caused me to eat that roll; he, the Lord, put it into his mouth, caused him to eat it, and tilled him with it, according to his promise,

Psalms 81:10. The efficacy and sufficiency to think of good things, to meditate upon them, receive and digest them, are of God; it is he that makes men prophets, and able ministers. The Targum is,

"and I inclined my soul, and he taught me (or made me wise "with") what was written in this roll.''